Press

The presence of more than one pay sand in a well can be both a blessing and a curse. The blessing is the presence of additional net pay and potential additional reserves. The curse is that it is
often difficult to economically justify selective fracture treatments for each individual sand.

Liquids Rich Organic Shale Recovery Factor Applications

Recovery factor analysis involves the integration of hydrocarbon pore volume from a core calibrated petropysical analysis with the extimated ultimate recovery from the lateral wellbore. A key
benefit is the normalization of performance among wellbores with varying oil in place volumes and establishment of "best practices" for well completions.

Refracture candidate selection and treatment execution has always presented
four main challenges to the industry when multiple pay zones are involved. The first challenge is determining the underlying cause of the poor production performance (poor reservoir quality, an
ineffective original stimulation treatment, or both). The second challenge is the identification of the specific zones with significant remaining reserves that have been poorly stimulated. The third
challenge is determining the current reservoir pressure in all of the prospective refracture candidate zones. The fourth major challenge is selectively stimulating the target zones in the wellbore
when there are existing perforations above the target zones.